US 7,467,400 B1
Integrated security system having network enabled access control and interface devices
John L. Moss, Wayland, Mass. (US); and Barry Gaiman, Belmont, Mass. (US)
Assigned to S2 Security Corporation, Framingham, Mass. (US)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/779,928.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/447544, filed on Feb. 14, 2003.
Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/18 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 726—3  [726/22; 726/23; 713/150] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An integrated security system operating over a network comprising:
a network security controller coupled to the network comprising:
a relational database including portal objects and related resources represented in at least one table in the relational database; at least one network node comprising:
a local database coupled to the network adapted to receive predetermined resource information from the relational database;
an event generator coupled to the local database to provide at least one portal event in response to the predetermined resource information received by the local database, the event generator further comprises a protocol normalizer and a data stream converter coupled to the protocol normalizer and adapted to receive data from a field device; and
a finite state portal controller coupled to the network and the event generator for providing at least one of an action and a global event in response to the at least one portal event.